Ok so we've all seen the "Long Way Round". This was an epic bike trip involving a quite good actor and his unknown actor mate, who is now a well known mate, though still not a good actor. They conquered the "Road of Bones" on state of the art BMW motorcycles. We couldn't beat that, but we could certainly out-crap it, which is why we chose to attempt their 18,000km trip on the machine that is to off-roading what syphillis is to romance, the Yamaha Townmate. The writing should have been on the wall with Charlie only passing his bike test a month before we left and Nick's bike only passing it's MOT at the 3rd attempt but we would not be deterred. If only someone had warned us it was not a good idea to enter Transnistria illegally...
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